It represents the aggression of Lycurgus to
the Maenads. Lycurgus, king of Thrace, was the enemy of Dionysus, destroyed the
vine and persecuted the Maenads. Dionysus punished him by depriving him of his
sight

56“Drunken Satyr” first century AD from a
Hellenistic original of the school of Pergamum, in Egyptian stone, called grovacca
(greywacke), quarried in Uadi Hammamat

70 “Relief of Horus” first half of the first
century AD with the Egyptian god depicted as a hawk with on his head the double
crown of Lower and Upper Egypt respectively in the shape of a tiara and modioi

Protesilaus was the first to set foot on
the beach of Troy and the first to die

His wife, Laodamia was given permission by
the gods to see him again for a short time but then she killed herself to
follow her husband in Hades, evoked here with three mythical damned: Sisyphus
with the boulder on his back, Ixion chained to the wheel and Tantalus next to
source from which he could not drink

22 “Ephesian Artemis” second century AD from the
so-called Greek Theatre of Hadrian's Villa
from the original, maybe of the second half of the fourth century BC

It was restored by Giovanni
Volpato and purchased by the Vatican Museums in 1781. In this version
Diana was called Lady of the Animals symbol of the fruitful nature and
abundance

According to Filippo Coarelli, the alleged
breasts, that actually show no nipples, are in reality the scrotums of bulls,
symbols of fertility

Orestes kills his mother Clytemnestra and
her lover Aegisthus to avenge the murder of his father Agamemnon. Pursued by
the Furies for what he had done he goes to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi to
purify himself